A few years ago I was lucky enough to see one of the greatest shows of my lengthy concertgoing life: King Crimson at the Chicago Theatre. Clearly the band thought it was a good one too, as they released the entire show as the album Official Bootleg: Live in Chicago, June 28th, 2017. King Crimson’s […]
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Meat Wave drummer Ryan Wizniak on a deranged 1978 synth-pop masterpiece
Current musical obsessions of Meat Wave drummer Ryan Wizniak, Meg MacDuff of Bleach Party and Montrose Man, and the Reader’s Luca Cimarusti
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To hell with King Crimson, go see Robert Fripp live while you can
Which shade of King Crimson can one expect to see tonight? The baroque-hippie, fast-shredding prog-rock of “21st Century Schizoid Man”? The show-offy protomath prog-rock of the band’s 1972-’74 peak? The global-fusion avant-AOR prog-rock of the group’s trio of albums in the early-to-mid 1980s? I have some bad news: You probably won’t get any of these. […]
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Listen to one of Robert Fripp’s greatest guitar solos (and one of the greatest guitar solos, period)
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is “I’ll Come Running,” off of Brian Eno’s 1975 album Another Green World.